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For the most part, Celia Gilchrist is living a happy life. Despite feeling slightly lonely and a bit like a third wheel when she's around her friends, Celia is nevertheless quite content living on her ...Read full review

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Though initially it appears to be a simple love story, this is a sinister if well-conceived tale, fraught with the terror created by the presence of evil. Livesey's spare prose skillfully highlights ...Read full review

About the author (1990)

Margot Livesey's acclaimed novels include "Eva Moves the Furniture" and "Banishing Verona". Her fiction has appeared in "The New Yorker" and "The Atlantic Monthly". Born in Scotland, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and teaches at Emerson College.